Travel Tip: Opera in EnglandAnna Nicole

A young Playboy model, an octogenarian billionaire husband, intrusive media fascination and a tragically early death. This contemporary opera is by the opera composer Mark-Anthony Turnage (Greek and The Silver Tassie) and librettist Richard Thomas (Jerry Springer: the Opera). The story of Anna Nicole Smith is under the direction of Richard Jones and the baton of Antonio Pappano, Music Director of The Royal Opera.

Sex, extreme language and drug abuse are part of the opera – after all, they were ingredients in a life that went from the dubious glamour of the sex symbol, through long and vicious legal struggles to a fatal overdose. How Anna Nicole was treated and how she was viewed is as much a reflection of the society that hounded her as of her own feelings and ambitions .